| Monday, September 11 |
John J. Pitney, Jr., professor of government, CMC; author, The Art of Political Warfare (2000) and co-author, Congress' Permanent Minority?: Republicans in the U. S. House (1994); "Bush, Gore, and the Art of Political Warfare" |
| Wednesday, September 13 |
Howard Figler, author, The Complete Job-Search Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Get the Job You Really Want (1979) and Liberal Education and Careers Today (1999); "Liberal Arts: What Are You Going To Do With It?" |
| Monday, September 18 |
Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, National Public Radio (NPR); author, Clearing the Air (1977) and "Forgive Us Our Press Passes" (1998) |
| Tuesday, September 19 |
Mark Masters, director, American Jazz Institute ensemble; John Nagourney, vibraphone; Kye Palmer, trumpet; Danny House, alto saxophone; Bill Perkins, tenor saxophone; Brian Williams, baritone saxophone; Bill Roper, tuba; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Putter Smith, bass; Sherman Ferguson, drums; Tom Hynes, guitar; Dave Woodley, trombone; Paul Klintworth, french horn; "American Jazz Institute Chamber Orchestra: The Teddy Charles Tentet" |
| Wednesday, September 20 |
Gish Jen, author, Typical American (1991) and Who's Irish?: Stories (1999); "Cultural Identity in a Hyphenated America" |
| Thursday, September 21 |
Richard Leo, professor of criminology, law and society, U.C. Irvine; editor, The Miranda Debate: Law, Justice, and Policing (1998) and co-author, Adapting to Miranda: Modern Interrogator's Strategies for Dealing with the Obstacles Posed by Miranda (1999); "Miscarriages of Justice in the 21st Century: Coercion, False Confessions, and the Wrongful Conviction of the Innocent" |
| Monday, September 25 |
David Sadava, Pritzker Family Foundation professor of biology, CMC; author, Cell Biology: Organelle Structure and Function (1993) and co-author, Life: The Science of Biology (1997); "Cancer Myths and Realities" |
| Tuesday, September 26 |
Mike Thornton; Mike Loomis; Andy Clemence; Tracey Stephens; Ann Schmitt; former Congressional staffers-turned-comedians; Marc Irwin, piano; "Capitol Steps: There's Something Funny Going On in Washington" (McKenna Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, September 27 |
Tashi Namgyal, former chief security officer for the Dalai Lama; "Tibet and Tibetans Since the Chinese Invasion" |
| Thursday, September 28 |
Susan Ehrlich, judge, Arizona Court of Appeals; co-author, Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Criminal Justice and Legal Occupations (1996) and author, On the Move: The Status of Women in Policing (1990); "The Federalization of the Law" |
| Monday, October 2 |
Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones professor of political philosophy, CMC; author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981) and co-editor, Educating the Prince (2000); Ryan Nayar '01; Rhonda Carter '02; Ben Hoyt, director of business development, Horizon.com; Debate Union alumnus; Dan Pawson '03, moderator; "This House Supports Negative Political Advertising" |
| Tuesday, October 3 |
Ariel Dorfman, distinguished research professor of literature and Latin American Studies, Duke University; author, Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (1988) and Death and the Maiden (1992); "To Be Completely, Absolutely, and Irreversibly Bilingual" |
| Wednesday, October 4 |
Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord; Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; "Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750" |
| Thursday, October 5 |
Lou Cannon, journalist; author, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991) and Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1998); "The Reagan Legacy" |
| Monday, October 9 |
Marshall Acuff, Jr., chief portfolio strategist, Salomon Smith Barney; "Investing: Past, Present, and Future" |
| Tuesday, October 10 |
Cherrie Moraga, co-editor, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1984) and author, Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (1997); "The Dying Road to a Nation" |
| Wednesday, October 11 |
Richard Reeves, professor of political science, UCLA; author, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1993) and American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America (1982) and "What the People Know: Freedom and the Press" (1998) |
| Wednesday, October 18 |
Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, theater company; "Scenes From Shakespeare" |
| Thursday, October 19 |
Gary Wells, professor of psychology, Iowa State University; co-editor, Eyewitness Testimony: Psychological Perspectives (1984); "Eyewitness Misidentification: Psychological Contributions to Understanding, Predicting, and Controlling Eyewitness Error" |
| Monday, October 23 |
Edwin Simmons, Brigadier General, U.S. Marines, Retired; co-editor, The Marines (1998) and author, Dog Company Six (2000); "The Korean War: Personal Reflections" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 23 |
Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University; author, Race, Crime and the Law (1997) and Guilt by Association (1997); "The Racial Politics of Adoption" |
| Wednesday, October 25 |
Anna Quindlen, columnist, Newsweek; author, One True Thing (1994) and Black and Blue (1998); "Human Agenda in Health Care" |
| Thursday, October 26 |
Pat Buchanan, Reform party Presidential candidate; "Pat Buchanan Town Hall Meeting" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Thursday, October 26 |
Greg Bothun, professor of physics, University of Oregon; author, Modern Cosmological Observations and Problems (1998) and Cosmology: Mankind's Grand Investigation (1999); "The New Cosmology: Einstein's Biggest Blunder Undone" |
| Friday, October 27 |
Dan Walters, columnist, Sacramento Bee; author, The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986) and California Political Almanac: 1990-1991 (1991); "One Hundred Fifty Years of California: Progress, Pain, and Politics" (7:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 30 |
Peter Rutland, fellow, Caspian Studies Program, Kennedy School, Harvard University; author, The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Political Organs in Economic Management (1993) and editor, Holding the Course: Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (1998); "Putin's Challenge: Rebuilding the Russian State" |
| Tuesday, October 31 |
Halloween Dinner, "Under the Lights: Selections of Poe" |
| Wednesday, November 1 |
Rezzo Schlauch, German Green Party leader; "What Does Green Mean? How the German Green Party Differs From the American" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 1 |
Amy Wilentz, journalist; author, The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier (1989) and Dancing on Fire: Photography from Haiti (1992); "The Truth Over Time: Looking Back on My Own Work" |
| Thursday, November 2 |
Timothy Quill, M.D., professor of medicine and psychiatry, University of Rochester; author, A Midwife through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life (1996) and Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge (1993); "Physician-Assisted Death: Progress or Peril?" |
| Saturday, November 4 |
Peter Drucker, Marie Rankin Clarke professor of social science and management, Claremont Graduate University; author, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1993) and Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999); "How to be a Successful Consultant" (11:15 a.m.) |
| Monday, November 6 |
Sang Wok Suh, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; author, Structural Adjustment in a Newly Industrialized Country: Lessons from the Korean Experience (1988); "Korean Capitalism in Search of New Paradigms" |
| Wednesday, November 8 |
Katie Koestner, director of educational programs, Campus Outreach Services, Inc.; author, Total Sexual Assault Risk Management Strategies for Colleges (1998) and forthcoming Without Consent (2001); "No/Yes" |
| Thursday, November 9 |
Peter Neufeld, cofounder and director, The Innocence Project; co-author, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (2000); "Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies; What is to be Done?" |
| Monday, November 13 |
Randy Katz, United Microelectronics Corporation distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science, U.C. Berkeley; author, Information Management for Engineering Design (1985) and Contemporary Logic Design (1993); "History of Communications Infrastructure or From Smoke Signals to the Internet" |
| Tuesday, November 14 |
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, retired; "Moving Forward Without Forgetting (Avanzando y No Olvidanda)" |
| Wednesday, November 15 |
Takatoshi Kato, former vice minister of finance for international affairs, Japan's Ministry of Finance; "Japan's Identity Dilemma in Asia" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 15 |
Robert Shacochis, contributing editor, Harper's; author, The Immaculate Invasion (1999) and Swimming in the Volcano (1993); "The Threshold of Objectivity" |
| Thursday, November 16 |
George Mitchell, Jr., former U.S. Senator (D-Maine); author, Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism (1997) and World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth (1991); "Making Peace in Northern Ireland" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Monday, November 20 |
Paul Duke, journalist; former moderator of Washington Week in Review for PBS; author, Beyond Reagan: The Politics of Upheaval (1986); "Freedom, Power, and Persuasion" |